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He may contemplate this ideal wholeness and happiness far more than he ought; he may contemplate it to the neglect of exclusion of essential THINGS he may contemplate it until he has become a dreamer or a driveller; but still it is wholeness and happiness that he is contemplating. He may even go mad; but he is going mad for the love of sanity.
"Seeing that this obstinate pauper possessed that for which the pale owners of millions, at the first touch of palsy or gout, would consent to be paupers, of course I coveted the possession of the essence even more than the knowledge of the substance from which it is extracted. I had no coward fear of the experiment, which this timid driveller had not the nerve to renew.
She tortures me, by half constraining me to revere the virtues in favour of which she harangues so divinely. But shall I like a poor uxorious lackadaisy driveller sit down satisfied with a divided heart? I! she not with her own lips, under her own hand, avowed and signed her contumelious guilt, her audacious preference of a rival? A mean, a base, a vulgar rival!
Why, every one knows Rabbi Zimri, the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, the successor of Aaron. We have our temple yet, say what they like. A very learned doctor is Rabbi Zimri. 'Wretched driveller. I am ashamed to lose my patience with such a dotard. 'Driveller! dotard! Why, who are you? 'One you cannot comprehend. Without another word, lead me to your chief. 'Chief! you have not far to go.
The lads stood silent, not a little awed, and indeed imposed on, by the cynical and worldly-wise tone which their renowned uncle had assumed. At last one of them asked, falteringly, "Then you will do nothing for us?" "For you, nothing. Against you, nothing. Why should I mix myself up in my brother's quarrels? Will he make that white-headed driveller at Westminster reverse my outlawry?
'But, Hatteraick, my good friend, do but rise and speak to me, said Glossin. 'I will not! answered the savage, doggedly. 'You have caused all the mischief; you would not let Meg keep the boy; she would have returned him after he had forgot all. 'Why, Hatteraick, you are turned driveller!
Nevertheless, there came a Sunday evening when Simon returned from Harrow earlier than his wont, and Hannah's dog-like eye noted that the cloud had at last reached his brow. 'You have had a quarrel? she cried. 'Only with the old boy. 'But what about? 'The old driveller has just joined some League of Londoners for the suppression of the immigrant alien.
"That's a pity; her lawyer must have been a sad driveller." "Besides, now I remember, inquiry was made of his relations in England. His father, a farmer, was then alive; the answer was that he had certainly left Australia.
With a blasphemous oath, the false Prophet, spat in the forehead of the fulminating Priest, and hissed: "Silence, fool, idiot, driveller!" As the foul spittle touched the face of the Priest, he fell prone upon his back on the pavement of the Temple.
"You are right there," said his companion, "for it if were not that these forfeitures, and that last fine that the old driveller Turntippet is gaping for, and which, I dare say, is laid on by this time, have fairly driven me out of house and home, I were a coxcomb and a cuckoo to boot to trust your fair promises of getting me a commission in the Irish brigade.
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